Alpine Environment Quotes

I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can be built around the machine but it is doubtful that a meaningful life can be produced by it.... When man worships at the feet of avalas creations. When he feels the wind blowing through him on a high peak or sleeps under a closely matted white bark pine in an exposed basin, he is apt to find his relationship to the universe.

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

If you want to train for big mountain endeavors, spend time in big mountains.

Mt. Hood is still one of my favorites for its sun, warmth, and slushy, forgiving conditions.

Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

I grew up in a tiny village on top of a mountain and have been skiing and singing all my life!

In the mountains, there you feel free.